Employers are using health wellness video games to promote health and save employers direct and indirect healthcare costs, U.S. researchers say.Bill Ferguson, editor-in-chief of Games for Health Journal wrote in an editorial that wellness programs using health games could have a significant impact on human well-being and the costs, pain and suffering of preventable illnesses and conditions.Video g

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch weighed in on the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce story Sunday, saying he thinks Scientologists are "creepy" and possibly even evil.The News Corporation chief urged his Twitter followers to watch the story, which broke on Friday when Holmes announced she was filing from divorce from Hollywood A-lister Cruise, a prominent member of the Church of Scientology."Watch Katie H

 안젤리나 졸리의 과거 사진이 공개돼 화제가 되고 있다.현지 언론은 지난 월요일 졸리의 15세 시절 사진을 인터넷에 게재했다.졸리는 당시 어린 나이에도 두툼한 입술과 활짝 웃는 모습이 그대로 사진에 포착되었다.그는 영화배우 존 보이트의 딸로써 어린 나이에 모델 활동을 시작했다. 사진에는 패션 센스가 있고 밝고 명랑한 졸리의 모습이 담겨있다.졸리는 또한, 14세의 어린 나이에 남자친구와 동거하는 한편 연기 학교를 중간에 그만둔 적이 있다고 알려졌다.38살이 된 안젤리나 졸리는 철없는 시절로부터 벗어나 현재 영화배우, 그리고 여섯명의 아이들의 엄마로 지내고 있다.그는 또한, 유엔 난민고등 판무관 홍보대사로 활동하고 있으며 가장 최근에는 시리아 난민들에게 10만 달러(약 11억 5000만원)를 기부한 바 있다.졸

한 남성 모델이 사진 촬영 중에 부적절한 성적 행위를 하도록 강요당했다는 이유로 미국 유명 캐주얼 SPA 브랜드 아베크롬비앤피치(Abercrombie & Fitch)를 상대로 소송을 걸었다고 영국 언론이 지난 일요일 보도했다.벤자민 바우어스(Benjamine Bowers)는 아베크롬비에서 근무할 당시 캐스팅 디렉터에 의해 모델 에이전트인 브라이언 힐번(Brian Hilburn)에게 소개를 받아 미시시피 주 잭슨에서 사진 촬영을 하게 되었다고 말했다.소송 내용에 따르면, 사진 촬영 중에 힐번은 “모델 포트폴리오를 위해서는 편안한 이미지가 필요하다”고 말하면서 촬영장에서 옷을 벗고 성적인 행위를 통해 긴장을 풀 것을 요구했다.이에 바우어스가 응하자 힐번 스스로도 하반신 노출을 하며 성적인 대화를 이어갔다고 바우

British rock band Radiohead said Sunday it was “shattered” by the death of one of its crew members in a stage collapse in Toronto.Scott Johnson, 33, of Doncaster, England, was killed Saturday in the accident prior to the band’s concert at Downsview Park. Three other stage workers were injured.“We have all been shattered by the loss of Scott Johnson, our friend and colleague,” the band said in a st

18일 오전 5시32분쯤 일본 중북부의 이와테현 앞바다에서 규모 6.4의 지진이 발생했다.이 지진으로 동일본대지진 피해지역인 이와테현과 미야기현의 해안 지역 일대에 규모 5 안팎의 충격이 감지됐다.일본 기상청은 이번 지진으로 인한 쓰나미 우려는 없다고 밝혔다.또한, 같은 날 오전 3시 5분께 중국 허베이성 탕산시에서도 규모 4.0의 지진이 발생했다. 진원은 북위 38.6도, 동경 117.6도, 지하 9km 지점이다. 아직까지 인명피해는 확인되지 않았다.(코리아헤럴드) 6.4 quake hits off east coast of Japan: USGSA 6.4-magnitude undersea earthquake on Monday jolted the sea area off the east coast of Hons

A 6.4-magnitude undersea earthquake on Monday jolted the sea area off the east coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan, US seismologists said, but no tsunami alert was issued.The US Geological Survey said the quake had a depth of 31 kilometers (20 miles) and hit at 5:32am (2032 GMT Sunday) some 140 kilometers east of the city of Sendai.In March last year a 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake off J

This photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection. (AP)A Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating disease is refusing to take pain medications during some procedures, partly because of her personal convictions, her father said.Aimee Copeland despises the use of morphine in her treatment, despite its

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak sent a message of condolences to Peruvian President Ollanta Humala on Monday over the deaths in a helicopter crash in Peru that killed 14 people, including eight South Koreans.In the message, Lee expressed deep condolences to the victims and their families and asked the Peruvian government for support in handling the aftermath of the crash, according to preside

This photo is not directly related to the article. (MCT)Former students at the prestigious Horace Mann School in New York told The New York Times Magazine they had been sexually abused at the school.The magazine, in a story posted online Wednesday, said the school did not inform police or parents of the sexual abuse by at least three teachers, all of whom are now dead, from the 1970s through 1994.

Children and teens scanned multiple times by computed tomography have a somewhat increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors, U.S. and British researchers say.Senior investigator Amy Berrington de Gonzalez of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute and colleagues at Newcastle University in England obtained CT exams from radiology departments in hospitals a

Olympic swimmers Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk are in hot water again after being ordered to remove photos of themselves posing with guns from their social media sites.The photo of Monk holding two pump-action shotguns and standing beside D’Arcy, who had a pistol in each hand, in a U.S gun shop spread quickly in social and traditional media Thursday, with Sydney Daily Telegraph taking to Twitter to

 The Peruvian air force has detected with satellite signals the rough location of a missing local helicopter carrying 14 people, including eight South Koreans, a South Korean diplomat in Lima said Thursday.The helicopter was located between the cities of Mazuco and Cusco in southeastern Peru at a latitude of 13 degrees and 27 minutes south and a longitude of 71 degrees and seven minutes west, Kim

This photo is not directly related to the story. (Yonhap Photo)Five Azeri soldiers were killed in a border clash with Armenian soldiers in the deadliest incident between the neighbors in four years as visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of risks of a regional conflict.The servicemen were killed while repelling an attack by an Armenian “saboteur” squad in the western Qazax distr

 MCTThe body of a man convicted of kidnapping and second-degree murder was found partly eaten by a bear in southern British Columbia, authorities said.Rory Nelson Wagner, 53, had been reported missing when he didn’t return to his residence at an apartment where he had to be at night while on day parole, The (Kamloops, British Columbia) Daily News reported.Wagner’s body was found in woods southwest

MCTA teenage girl from Liverpool died after she became ill at a social club.Friends of Rose Farley, 15, claim that her drink was spiked with ecstasy.Rose collapsed in the early hours of Saturday in her home after celebrating at a friend’s birthday party at the Silvestrian Social Club.Police said a sixteen year-old was being questioned on charges of supplying controlled drugs at the club. Police ha

Genetics can predict success of smoking cessation and whether a person is likely to respond to drugs for nicotine addiction, U.S. researchers say.“We found that the effects of smoking cessation medications depend on a person’s genes,” first author Dr. Li-Shiun Chen of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said in a statement.The research focused on specific variations in a clu

Dharun Ravi, center, and his father, Ravi Pazhani, leave court in New Brunswick, N.J. Dharun Ravi on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (AP)An Indian-born former Rutgers University student criticized by a judge for refusing to apologize for using a webcam to spy on his male roommate kissing another man days before the roommate killed himself apologized on Tuesday and said he has accepted responsibility for wh

Qatar’s Interior Ministry said 13 children were among 19 people killed in a fire that broke out in one of the country’s fanciest shopping malls late Monday morning, raising questions about building safety in the booming Gulf state.At least some of the victims died as rescuers struggled to reach a child care center at the Villaggio mall in the capital Doha, according to Qatar’s Minister of State fo

Justin Bieber carries Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s title belts into the ring, May 5, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP)Pop singer Justin Bieber is being investigated for battery after allegedly hitting a paparazzo who tried to take pictures of him, California authorities said.The incident happened Sunday afternoon outside the Calabasas mall The Commons, TMZ.com reported.Police said Bieber and his girlfriend Selen